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New York City caps Uber, Lyft after taxi drivers' losses Aljazeera.comThe Big Apple is limiting number of ride-sharing cars on streets after years of traditional taxi drivers complaining they can not earn a living due to competition. View the full article

The economics of putting on an Edinburgh Fringe show MoneyWeekThe Edinburgh Fringe may be a barrel of laughs, but the economics of putting on a show is serious business, says Dominic Frisby. View the full article

The List Dean Hendry: Smells Like Dean Spirit The List As the only gay member in a family with a strong history of amateur boxing, and having grown up in a deeply homophobic time (the 1980s) in a part of Edinburgh that he describes as a rough neighbourhood, Dean Hendry wears the badge of outsider with a ... View the full article

Edinburgh plans monthly car-free Sundays road.ccEdinburgh City Council plans to close streets in parts of the Scottish capital to motor vehicles on the first Sunday of each month in what it says will provide “a ... View the full article

Uber is using machine learning to reduce payment errors made on business trips MobileMarketing MagazineUber is using machine learning, along with other updates, to improve its *service* for business users – reducing errors when switching between business and ... View the full article

The Guardian The week in radio and podcasts: Made of Human; The Edinburgh Fringe Show; Reasons to be Cheerful The Guardian Reasons to be Cheerful | cheerful.libsyn.comTo Edinburgh, where my hangover looms over me like Arthur's Seat over the cobbled streets. It's fringe time – no ... There are also wild tangents on depressing breakfasts, Uber and Tinder. The live version is ... View the full article

The Edinburgh festival would be a joy if it weren’t for tick-list tourists The GuardianMy favourite time and place to be in Edinburgh is probably in the late autumn on Calton Hill, on those days when the shadows cast by a rheumy sun can make ... View the full article

The week in radio and podcasts: Made of Human; The Edinburgh Fringe Show; Reasons to be Cheerful The GuardianStuck at home? These funny, informative shows can give you a taste of the Edinburgh fringe. View the full article

Telegraph.co.uk Frankie Boyle: Prometheus Volume III at the Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe, review Telegraph.co.uk This leads to a similarly edgy section on white justice vs black justice and the taxi-driving serial rapist John Worboys, which itself builds cleverly to a razor-sharp barb at the expense of Uber. The funniest jokes from the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe ... View the full article

The Guardian The best shows at the Edinburgh festival 2018 The Guardian Nothing about Snedden's cool and capable delivery says debutante, as she talks us through her home-birth photo album, her sexually overactive parents and her unprecedentedly low Uber rating. There's a great gag about PMS, too. Through it all, she sends ... View the full article

Frankie Boyle: Prometheus Volume III, Playhouse, Edinburgh Fringe, review: a scorpion on a moral crusade Telegraph.co.ukWithin the first few seconds of his new show, Prometheus Volume III, Frankie Boyle warns his adoring audience that there's going to be quite a lot of swearing, ... View the full article

insider.co.uk Lawn care app launches in Edinburgh insider.co.uk Iqbal hopes to reach 30 by the end of the month, covering over 10,000 homes. "Edinburgh was selected as the first city for the launch of this app and it will be rolled out throughout the rest of Scotland's cities and towns, eventually becoming the go ... View the full article

DigitalSpy.com You can now get free Uber rides with a comedian doing stand-up at Edinburgh Fringe DigitalSpy.com Because we're in the year 2018, you can now get a free and funny taxi ride with Uber and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It's Carpool Comedy, if you like. Yes, award-winning comedian and panel show-favourite Andrew Maxwell is giving Uber riders the ... Uber's in-car stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe is the worst idea in the entire history of comedyCityMetric Andrew Maxwell is playing Edinburgh Fringe gigs in UbersMobileMarketing Magazine all 110 news articles » View the full article

Uber set to face competition across Greater Manchester with launch of Ola Manchester Evening NewsOla, an Indian taxi-hailing app, plans to operate across the region as part of an expansion into the UK. View the full article

Lawn care app launches in Edinburgh Insider.co.ukA Dundee entrepreneur has launched a new app to help homeowners find lawn care professionals. Asif Iqbal said his Lawn Lush app had been described as ... View the full article

New York votes to cap Uber and Lyft services BBC NewsNew York has become the first major US city to approve a cap on ride-hail car licences and set minimum pay conditions for drivers. The bill will impact popular ... View the full article

New York Times Russia, Germany, Uber: Your Thursday Briefing New York Times At this year's Edinburgh Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world, mental health has emerged as a prominent theme — both on stage and off. • “Welcome to Mawlynnong (God's own Garden).” While waste chokes many of India's cities, this small ... and more » View the full article

Telebasel Top Secret Drum Corps wird in Edinburgh gefeiert Telebasel Am Ende ihrer Nummer hatten sie sogar eine Standing Ovation – sehr selten am Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.» Auch Corps Leader Erik Julliard zeigt sich höchst zufrieden: «Ein unglaublicher Erfolg. Jedermann der mit der Entwicklung über die Jahre zu ... and more » View the full article

WR Pferde aus Stahl und die Jacht der Queen WR Einheimische und Touristen wollen nun hinauf auf den Hügel, der am östlichen Rand des Zentrums von Edinburgh etwa 250 Meter hoch aufragt. Der Trampelpfad ist leicht zu bewältigen. Ganz oben ist der Panoramablick großartig und reicht weit über die ... and more » View the full article

WESER-KURIER Gold-Coup von Edinburgh - Zwei Rad-Medaillen im Stark-Regen WESER-KURIER Der Magdeburger Florian Wellbrock schwamm in 7:45,60 Minuten erneut deutschen Rekord, nachdem er schon über 1500 Meter Gold verbucht hatte. „Genau so muss man ein Rennen gestalten, wenn man eine Medaille will“, sagte er im ARD-Interview zum ... Gold-Coup im Pool von Edinburgh - Zwei Rad-Medaillen im Stark-Regenshz.de all 275 news articles » View the full article

CityMetric Uber's in-car stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe is the worst ... CityMetric This morning, I was lucky enough to receive not one, not two, but three emails from the same PR company telling me about an exciting new show happening at ... Andrew Maxwell is playing Edinburgh Fringe gigs in UbersMobileMarketing Magazine all 3 news articles » View the full article

MobileMarketing Magazine Andrew Maxwell is playing Edinburgh Fringe gigs in Ubers | Mobile ... MobileMarketing Magazine As part of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Uber has teamed up with Andrew Maxwell – star of Mock the Week, Have I got News for You, and Live at the ... View the full article

CityMetric A brief guide to all the terrible homes I have ever rented CityMetric So, if you're in Edinburgh over the next three days, you can get yourself a free ticket (honestly, imagine the fucking cheek if they charged) to one of the twelve gigs via the Uber app. And if you go, do tell Andrew Maxwell to thank his PR people who ... View the full article

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Black cab drivers should blame TfL, not Uber, for their loss of earnings Telegraph.co.ukWelcome to Refresh – a series of comment pieces by young people, for young people, looking for a response to Britain's biggest issues. View the full article